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The phrase "as once removed" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe a relationship that is one degree of separation, often in the context of family or social connections.
Example: "He is my cousin, once removed, which means he is the child of my first cousin."
Alternatives: "once separated" or "one degree removed".
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The Roosevelts were more distantly related; Theodore was Franklin's fifth cousin, as (once removed) was his wife, Eleanor — a spiritual and political auntie of Hillary Clinton.
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We focus on identifying specified pedigree relationship from actual or realized genomic sharing, for example, whether a pair of individuals are related either as second cousins or as cousins once removed, in each case assuming there is uniparental sharing.
Moroccan/Algerian Jews, for example, were about as close genetically as third or fourth cousins; Jews from the Tunisian Island of Djerba were as close as first cousins once removed.
He showed that, on average, a pair of individuals is as genetically similar as first cousins once removed.
The Supreme Court must now determine the scope of the consent once removed doctrine, as well as the parameters for the application of qualified immunity.
When Elliott was diagnosed with T-cell lymphoma, Groopman realized "for the first time in my career I had reached my limits as a treating physician" and decided he could offer himself only as a "physician once removed".
Synthetic corks made from plastic also will guarantee against the wet cardboard taste of spoiled wine, but are rarely recyclable and can't be re-used as they expand once removed from the bottle.
Confounding variables were identified as variables that, once removed, changed β coefficients by more than 10%.
When the new king of Jerusalem, Baldwin IV, took the throne in 1174, Raymond successfully claimed the regency as the first cousin once removed of Baldwin, a minor and a leper.
It's true that for more than a century the hot tamale, which might be described as a third cousin once removed of the Mexican tamale, has been eaten throughout the Delta the alluvial plain along the Mississippi River which, according to its best-known description, "starts in the lobby of the Peabody Hotel in Memphis and ends on Catfish Row in Vicksburg".
It's true that for more than a century the hot tamale, which might be described as a third cousin once removed of the Mexican tamale, has been eaten throughout the Delta — the alluvial plain along the Mississippi River which, according to its best-known description, "starts in the lobby of the Peabody Hotel in Memphis and ends on Catfish Row in Vicksburg".
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